Chironius scurrulus (Wagler, 1824)

Nogueira, Cristiano C., Argôlo, Antonio J. S., Arzamendia, Vanesa, Azevedo, Josué A., Barbo, Fausto E., Bérnils, Renato S., Bolochio, Bruna E., Borges-Martins, Marcio, Brasil-Godinho, Marcela, Braz, Henrique, Buononato, Marcus A., Cisneros-Heredia, Diego F., Colli, Guarino R., Costa, Henrique C., Franco, Francisco L., Giraudo, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Guedes, Thaís, Hoogmoed, Marinus S., Marques, Otavio A. V., Montingelli, Giovanna G., Passos, Paulo, Prudente, Ana L. C., Rivas, Gilson A., Sanchez, Paola M., Serrano, Filipe C., Silva Jr., Nelson J., Strüssmann, Christine, Vieira-Alencar, João Paulo S., Zaher, Hussam, Sawaya, Ricardo J. & Martins, Marcio, 2019, Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna, South American Journal of Herpetology 14 (s 1), pp. 1-274 : 18

Chironius scurrulus (Wagler in Spix, 1824)

Type locality. Rio Japurá , state of Amazonas, Brazil .

Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela in Amazonia ( Plt. 129A ). In Brazil, widespread in Amazonia and its contact areas with the Cerrado ( Plt. 129A ), mostly at low elevations ( Plt. 129B ). Previous maps and taxonomy in Dixon et al. (1993). Observed in the field in primary and secondary forest ( Dixon and Soini, 1977; Duellman, 1978; Dixon et al., 1993; Martins and Oliveira, 1998; Bernarde and Abe, 2006).

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Plate 129. Distribution map of Chironius scurrulus in relation to (A) South American Ecoregions (adapted from Olson et al., 2001) and (B) elevation.Red star indicates type-locality, if precisely located.